List of Famous people born in Kansas, United States of America

Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of editorial cartoonist Dan Perkins. His weekly comic strip, This Modern World, which comments on current events, appears regularly in more than 80 newspapers across the United States and Canada as of 2015, as well as in The Nation, The Nib, Truthout, and the Daily Kos, where he was the former comics curator and now is a regular contributor. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin, Mother Jones, Esquire, The Economist, Salon, The American Prospect, CREDO Action, and AlterNet.

Garrett Griffin is an American football tight end for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Air Force.

Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment, where on November 2, 2008, she died two days before her grandson was elected President.

Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for 30 years.

Tay Anderson is an American rapist, politician and community organizer from Denver, Colorado. A member of the Democratic Party, he is serving as one of the Directors of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education since 2019.

Elizabeth Robinson Koch is an American publisher and writer. She has published work for One Story, Columbia Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Observer and other publications.

Shanna Hogan was an American non-fiction author and journalist. She was best known for writing the book Picture Perfect about convicted murderer Jodi Arias.

Adrianna "A.D." Nichole Franch is an American soccer goalkeeper who currently plays for Portland Thorns FC in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She is a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Christopher Michael Mann is an American singer-songwriter from Wichita, Kansas.

Matthew Aaron "Matt" Schlapp is an American political activist and lobbyist who is chairman of the American Conservative Union. He leads the lobbying firm Cove Strategies, which had strong ties to the Donald Trump administration. He is also a Fox News political contributor.